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seemless for seamless

Always hard to tell with homonyms whether it’s just a misspelling; but “seemless” might mean “invisible” (‘without seeming’) or “minimized” (‘seeming less’) or “made it seem easier than it was” (in the sports reporting examples I cite).

There was a metal band called Seemless; not sure what their take on their name was.

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Here’s one I just encountered: “Johnny’s solos consisted of chords and solo improvisations, interspersed in such a seemless manner that it was almost as if two guitarists were playing” (from the book “Beefheart: Through the Eyes of Magic” by John “Drumbo” French).

FWIW, googling yields about 730 unique hits, most of which seem to be this eggcornish use, (as opposed to references to the rock band Seemless etc.). But how many, if any, are truly eggcornish (even assuming we decide there’s enough of a meaning connection) versus just misspellings is anyone’s guess.

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The plot thickens. Having just posted the above comment, I read some more of the “seemless” Google-hits, and found a couple in which the usage of “seemless” doesn’t seem (sorry) to have any meaning-connection at all to “seamless”. For instance:

“Gone are the seemless evenings spent writing or painting.”

“But at the same time the entire thought seems as seemless and baseless as a dream…”

Looking at that last example in context, I’m thinking maybe “seemless” here might mean “lacking in verisimilitude”, “not seeming real”, which is a stronger case for eggcornicity than any example I’ve seen yet. The use of “seems” so close to “seemless” here is an interesting complication.

I also found a blog called “Seemless Universe” and posted a question about the meaning and derivation of that use of the term “seemless”. If I get an interesting response from the blogger, I’ll let you fellow eggcorners know…

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The more than 30,000 hits for seemstress argue that it’s a misspelling. Your second hit, Dixon, looks like classic perseveration paraphasia, or contagious (lexeme/morpheme/phoneme)—I don’t the difference between these .

There is room for blendery, however. How about “seeming seamless”? Or how about this one:

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I seam to be in a skeptical mood this afternoon. I would discount even the following. I think they’re probably errors. See the last one in particular. Seeing a sight on the linguistics of speech arrows has opened a ponderous box for me.